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90

8.3

/100177/

82

/1668/

83

/1260/

4.5

/169556/

98

/57/

96

/1465/

92

/20/

4.0

age 11+

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

poster

90

8.1

/76222/

81

/1411/

82

/1162/

4.4

/133439/

100

/52/

93

/871/

100

/19/

4.0

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.

poster

82

8.4

/39555/

81

/1416/

80

/656/

4.2

/35726/

75

/77/

87

/439/

65

/24/

4.0

Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders.

poster

83

81

7.8

/20429/

76

/366/

75

/336/

4.0

/35861/

100

/21/

91

/405/

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, cop and criminal’s lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami’s own dark side.

poster

81

7.8

/35695/

79

/1527/

78

/959/

4.2

/132633/

93

/59/

90

/779/

70

/15/

8.2

/92643/

age 12+

Documentary filmmaker Genya Tachibana has tracked down the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who mysteriously vanished at the height of her career. When he presents her with a key she had lost and thought was gone forever, the filmmaker could not have imagined that it would not only unlock the long-held secrets of Chiyoko’s life... but also his own.

poster

81

7.7

/339866/

79

/18075/

79

/10178/

4.1

/1058367/

91

/141/

85

/15697/

72

/24/

3.5

age 5+

To save her father from certain death in the army, a young woman secretly enlists in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process.

poster

78

7.4

/52977/

74

/1265/

72

/915/

3.7

/25062/

87

/123/

88

/1672/

75

/33/

3.5

age 17+

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople.

poster

77

7.3

/10600/

71

/1110/

71

/426/

3.6

/24391/

89

/132/

91

/25122/

This animated short revolves around the events causing an electrical systems failure on the west coast of the US. According to Blade Runner 2049’s official timeline, this failure leads to cities shutting down, financial and trade markets being thrown into chaos, and food supplies dwindling. There’s no proof as to what caused the blackouts, but Replicants — the bio-engineered robots featured in the original Blade Runner, are blamed.

poster

83

76

7.8

/6645/

74

/107/

75

/139/

4.0

/13526/

100

/27/

89

/57/

91

/4/

Two young brothers become the leaders of a gang of kids in their neighborhood. Ozu's charming film is a social satire that draws from the antics of childhood as well as the tragedy of maturity.

poster

82

73

7.8

/4795/

74

/110/

78

/124/

4.1

/8470/

94

/18/

91

/37/

In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that he is only praised for his acting due to his status as his father's heir. Devastated by this, he turns to Otoku, a servant of his family, for comfort, and they fall in love. Kikunosuke becomes determined to leave home and develop as an actor on his own merits, and Otoku faithfully follows him.

poster

70

6.8

/6961/

65

/72/

63

/76/

3.3

/2064/

70

/89/

70

/362/

73

/32/

3.5

Sandy, a geologist, finds herself stuck on a field trip to the Pilbara desert with a Japanese man she finds inscrutable, annoying and decidedly arrogant. Hiromitsu's view of her is not much better. Things go from bad to worse when they become stranded in one of the most remote regions on Earth.

poster

70

6.8

/8389/

64

/130/

65

/117/

3.6

/7790/

71

/21/

71

/193/

75

/17/

3.0

Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in the training room, all centering around a handsome young samurai named Sozaburo Kano. The school's stern master can choose to intervene, or to let Kano decide his own path.

poster

70

6.5

/14127/

62

/183/

63

/178/

3.5

/10761/

68

/56/

80

/623/

64

/20/

3.5

A woman with a body writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.

poster

82

69

7.9

/3368/

74

/106/

76

/84/

4.2

/12720/

100

/278/

Tells the story of the samurai Gengobe, who seeks revenge after falling prey to the schemes of a geisha and her husband.

poster

69

6.6

/24671/

67

/776/

65

/692/

3.6

/41525/

84

/38/

64

/410/

A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.

poster

67

7.0

/671/

44

/5/

64

/9/

3.4

/209/

70

/10/

78

/31/

3.0

Cio-Cio-San, a young Japanese geisha, seeks to fulfill her dreams through marriage to an American naval officer. Her faith in their future is shattered by his empty vows and the loss she endures touches something deep within us all.

poster

66

7.3

/170228/

75

/4596/

76

/3270/

3.5

/156708/

35

/165/

83

/20576/

54

/38/

2.5

age 13+

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

poster

76

63

7.4

/3214/

71

/52/

70

/79/

3.8

/5841/

89

/9/

77

/37/

Umekichi, a geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto, feels obliged to help her lover Furusawa when he asks to stay with her after becoming bankrupt and leaving his wife. However her younger sister Omocha tells her she is wasting her time and money on a loser. She thinks that they should both find wealthy patrons to support them. Omocha therefore tries various schemes to get rid of Furusawa, and set themselves up with better patrons.

poster

69

61

6.9

/4708/

64

/89/

62

/95/

3.5

/4218/

86

/58/

64

/48/

An American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai.

poster

77

60

7.5

/1755/

81

/40/

70

/36/

3.8

/1846/

94

/72/

79

/45/

69

/21/

This intimate and loving portrait of the legendary arbiter of fashion, art and culture illustrates the many stages of Vreeland's remarkable life. Born in Paris in 1903, she was to become New York's "Empress of Fashion" and a celebrated Vogue editor.

poster

71

60

6.8

/3548/

67

/74/

66

/60/

3.6

/7920/

80

/15/

72

/40/

Two detectives clash over the hunt for a burlesque dancer’s killer in Los Angeles’ Japanese district.

poster

72

60

6.9

/4336/

72

/152/

71

/174/

3.3

/1216/

85

/3673/

An account of karate competitor Choi Yeung-Eui who went to Japan after World War II to become a fighter pilot but found a very different path instead. He changed his name to Masutatsu Oyama and went across the country, defeating martial artists one after another. This film concentrates on the period when he is still young, and developing his famous karate style, Kyokushin.

poster

82

58

8.0

/1312/

66

/12/

86

/9/

3.9

/5560/

100

/19/

Nagasaki, 1964: Following the death of his yakuza father, 15-year-old Kikuo is taken under the wing of a famous kabuki actor. Alongside Shunsuke, the actor’s only son, he decides to dedicate himself to this traditional form of theatre. For decades, the two young men grow and evolve together – and one will become the greatest Japanese master of the art of kabuki.

poster

82

58

7.6

/2604/

72

/60/

75

/56/

3.9

/3557/

100

/8/

94

/11/

Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, a veteran geisha. Both, determined to preserve their professional integrity, must face the selfishness and ambition of several petty people.

poster

70

57

6.7

/2265/

71

/79/

64

/66/

3.6

/3438/

73

/11/

75

/249/

Anna Tsuchiya blasts back in time playing an oiran, a top-notched geisha of the Edo period’s Yoshiwara District, navigating brothel politics while trying to cling to the man she loves.

poster

62

56

6.1

/5830/

68

/203/

70

/247/

3.0

/2638/

53

/88/

Financially troubled, a newbie hitman reluctantly takes the job of finding the plotted killer of a Japanese tycoon.

poster

55

6.3

/237451/

68

/27855/

61

/8359/

2.6

/194578/

43

/298/

51

/2610/

52

/42/

2.0

age 14+

In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: a human saved from a terrible crash, then cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.

poster

80

55

7.4

/2106/

66

/36/

72

/55/

3.9

/4352/

100

/6/

90

/11/

A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles.

poster

59

55

6.1

/8057/

61

/254/

62

/233/

3.1

/8689/

51

/856/

The film is a graphic depiction of the war atrocities committed by the Japanese at Unit 731, the secret biological weapons experimentation unit of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. The film details the various cruel medical experiments Unit 731 inflicted upon the Chinese and Soviet prisoners at the tail-end of the war.

poster

54

5.6

/4316/

53

/43/

53

/64/

3.2

/1985/

41

/37/

55

/81/

36

/25/

3.0

Following the death of a mother, a father and son open up their very own harem in their Genevan estate after watching 8½.

poster

67

52

6.6

/3997/

68

/45/

62

/43/

3.0

/1076/

83

/6/

65

/60/

In post-WWII Japan, an American captain is brought in to help build a school, but the locals want a teahouse instead.

poster

76

51

7.0

/1518/

71

/21/

71

/33/

3.7

/2201/

100

/7/

75

/17/

Utamaro, a great artist, lives to create portraits of beautiful women, and the brothels of Tokyo provide his models. A world of passion swirls around him, as the women in his life vie for lovers. And, occasionally, his art gets him into trouble.

poster

75

51

7.4

/1300/

66

/27/

73

/35/

3.8

/1810/

89

/390/

With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant portrait of a quartet of aging geishas contemplating their troubles with men and money.

poster

77

50

7.1

/1573/

71

/46/

68

/55/

3.8

/4333/

100

/5/

78

/6/

Otsuya, the daughter of a rich merchant, elopes with her lover Shinsuke, an employee of her father's. During their flight, Otsuya's beauty attracts the gaze of Seikichi, a mysterious master tattooist who sees her pristine white skin as the perfect canvas for his art. The image of the large demonic spider that he emblazons across Otsuya's back marks her as the property of another man, radically altering her relationships with all around her as her personality seems to transform under its influence.

poster

50

5.5

/34355/

60

/1075/

55

/577/

2.7

/18496/

31

/36/

32

/625/

39

/17/

3.0

The Law Enforcement Technology Advancement Centre (LETAC) has developed SID version 6.7: a Sadistic, Intelligent, and Dangerous virtual reality entity which is synthesized from the personalities of more than 150 serial killers, and only one man can stop him.

poster

49

4.2

/15484/

45

/1416/

50

/641/

2.4

/34820/

62

/158/

49

/91/

53

/33/

2.0

age 16+

In the treacherous frontier city of Samurai Town, a ruthless bank robber is sprung from jail by wealthy warlord The Governor, whose adopted granddaughter Bernice has gone missing. The Governor offers the prisoner his freedom in exchange for retrieving the runaway. Strapped into a leather suit that will self-destruct within five days, the bandit sets off on a journey to find the young woman—and his own path to redemption.

poster

79

49

7.1

/895/

66

/29/

67

/24/

3.8

/1550/

100

/8/

81

/8/

92

/5/

A Man Vanishes examines the concept of Johatsu, tackling the phenomenon of people missing in Japan over the years. It picks one such person from the list, someone who had seemed to disappear from the face of the earth due to embezzlement from his company, and the filmmakers begin an investigative documentary into the reasons behind and attempt at tracking him down.

poster

71

48

7.0

/1427/

65

/24/

63

/32/

3.5

/2282/

87

/41/

A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokiko, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Despite being a minor, Setsuko is a liberated woman who does whatever she wants, including smoking. She even convinces Koyima to take her to a geisha house. When she gets rather tipsy, the professor calls Okada, one of his students, to take her home. The wife becomes suspicious of Setsuko when she sees Okada bringing her home.

poster

65

45

6.4

/2327/

66

/49/

62

/51/

3.3

/1205/

67

/1735/

Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. During his time in Japan he becomes attached to a little orphan boy.

poster

53

43

5.3

/2782/

56

/121/

53

/77/

2.9

/2177/

47

/140/

Sisters Yoshie and Kikue are two Geisha who are abducted by a mysterious organization to be transformed into murderous cyborg assassins.

poster

70

41

6.9

/1766/

70

/44/

67

/64/

3.5

/508/

75

/41/

Set in 1932, amid the rise of militarism after the establishment of the Manchukuo colony in Northeast China, the story centers on a trio of karateka. Studying under their aging master in a small dojo in the woods of central Kyushu, Choei, Taikan and Giryu face a company of kempeitai military police come to requisition their dojo for use as a military base.

poster

73

41

7.4

/1535/

70

/28/

71

/43/

3.8

/2446/

75

/10/

After living a traumatic experience in Tokyo, Yukiko returns to Kyoto, where Hatsuko, her mother, runs a brothel, which upsets Yukiko very much.

poster

69

39

6.9

/828/

66

/17/

61

/19/

3.8

/2056/

71

/104/

Set in the port city of Yokohama, two girls, Sunako and Dora who attend a Christian school, pledge to be friends. But when a youth named Henry appears on his motorcycle and offers to take Sunako for a ride, we know that this friendship won't last and that the lives of both girls will change in ways they are barely able to comprehend, and can do little to change.

poster

76

39

7.5

/1286/

69

/25/

71

/33/

3.9

/2091/

88

/10/

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade in the late days of Geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film portraits the day time life of geisha when not entertaining customers.

poster

71

37

5.9

/660/

60

/7/

51

/17/

2.7

/478/

100

/5/

88

/30/

Bugs fights stereotyped Japanese during World War II.

poster

61

37

6.4

/2304/

65

/112/

62

/102/

3.2

/1584/

50

/5/

A Japanophile young Belgian woman in Tokyo falls into a whirlwind romance with a Francophile Japanese student, in this charming and tender tale of young love and cultural discovery.

poster

61

33

6.4

/2551/

65

/74/

54

/38/

3.2

/569/

Directed by Junya Sato and based on a book by Jun Henmi, "Yamato" has a framing story set in the present day and uses flashbacks to tell the story of the crew of the World War II Japanese battleship Yamato. The film was never released in the United States, where reviewers who have seen it have compared the military epic to "Titanic" and "Saving Private Ryan."

poster

60

33

6.1

/847/

57

/44/

56

/36/

3.3

/1887/

A young magistrate recalls three tales of heinous crimes committed by women, and the brutal punishments that ensued.

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